You know we’re going to Mexico, right?

Skid, sCary, Charlie and I spent Saturday in San Diego meeting with Eric Solorzano, the nine-time winner of the Baja 1000 in the stock VW class. It’s hard to put into words how the day went. Eric is one of the nicest people you’d have the opportunity to meet.

I was re-parking the rental car when he told the gang we’d be going to Tijuana to his shop.

He endured hours of questions, allowed us to crawl all over his cars and offered to help us tune our car to make it competitive.

Eric’s a former offroad motorcycle racer who switched to VWs. He has two cars. One for short courses and one for the Baja 1000. He’s used the same cars since he started racing. They are bulletproof and incorporate things we’d never have thought of.

I strongly suspect we’ll be having Eric build our engine and doing our suspension tuning.

He was a great host and I expect we’ll be working extensively with him in the months leading up to the race.

Here’s a slideshow of our time with him.